NEW YORK — A redheaded Russian spy whose photographs made her a tabloid favorite is upset that the United Kingdom has revoked her citizenship, her lawyer said Wednesday.

Attorney Robert Baum said Anna Chapman, 28, also refused to let him send along a request from an adult movie company to appear in a film.

"They sent an e-mail with a letter. She didn't even want me to forward it," Baum said. "She didn't even want to consider the offer."

He did pass along notification to Chapman from the United Kingdom that her citizenship had been revoked and that she would not be permitted to enter the country. He said the citizenship decision can be appealed but it would be three years before she could apply again to re-enter England, where she has spent much of the last nine years.

"She's particularly upset" at the rejection by the United Kingdom, Baum said. "It was disappointing to learn she can't go back."

Baum said he has communicated regularly with Chapman by e-mail as he tries to return her belongings following her deportation nearly two weeks ago. She was required to leave the country along with nine other Russian spies immediately after they pleaded guilty to working as unregistered agents for Russia while living seemingly quiet lives in America.

Baum said he visited her nearly every day while she sat alone in a prison cell for 10 days after her June 27 arrest.

He said reports that she was trying to sell her story to make money were false.

"She has not been shopping her story. She's not granted any interviews. She has not hired an agent," Baum said. He said she read one report that she was selling her story and told him it was an "absolute lie."

Chapman became a tabloid darling three weeks ago as photographs gleaned from the Internet showed the smiling Russian enjoying Manhattan's nightlife, posing in front of the Statue of Liberty and mixing with businessmen at a conference. Later, several pictures showing her naked were published.

Her popularity has flooded Baum's e-mail address with requests from journalists in the United States and England who want to talk to her and from authors who would like to write a book with her.

Chapman's plea agreement with federal prosecutors includes a clause forbidding her from making money from the sale of her story in book or movie form. However, there was no prohibition from her making money based on her celebrity status, Baum said.

And he indicated it was likely she eventually would tell her story, even if she's not allowed to accept money for it.

"She can tell her story but if she makes money on it, the U.S. government is going to try and seize the profits," Baum said. "I guess they figure if she's not being paid for it, she's not going to tak about it. That's probably not the case."

He said Chapman is happy to be reunited with her family, especially her sister who lives just outside Moscow.

Most of her time has been spent trying to resurrect a business that matches real estate agents with people looking to buy homes, he said.

Baum said Chapman has had very little contact with the Russian government since her return and was not receiving payments of any kind. A lawyer for one of her co-defendants had said the Russian government had promised his client $2,000 a month for life and lodging if he returned to Russia.

Baum said he is sure Chapman misses her life in the U.S.

"She wished that she hadn't been forced to leave," he said. "I know she wanted to stay here. She had a lot of friends."

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Explainer: ‘Such a nice couple’: The spies next door

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This drawing dated June 28, 2010 shows five of the 10 arrested Russian spy suspects in a New York courtroom.

It’s a tabloid editor’s dream come true: Ten people are accused of being undercover Russian spies, and one of them is even photogenic enough to deserve her own slideshow (see The New York Post’s tribute to what they are calling "Sexy Russian Spy Anna Chapman" here).

But for the neighbors of the 10 people arrested throughout the Northeast, it's more of a nightmare. Who are these people who they had come to trust as a professor, a newspaper columnist, and an architect, among other well-respected professions?
Video: FBI arrests 10 in alleged Russian spy ring

“They’re such a nice couple,” Susan Coke, a real estate agent who sold a home in Montclair, N.J. to two of the suspects — who called themselves Richard and Cynthia Murphy — told The New Jersey Star-Ledger. “I just hope the FBI got it wrong.”

Dubbed the “femme fatale” of the Russian spy ring, Chapman, 28, said she was the founder of an online real estate company worth $2 million. The daughter of a Russian diplomat (whom her ex-husband dubbed "scary"), she said she had a master's in economics, was divorced and lived a socialite’s life in Manhattan’s Financial District. According to the New York Daily News, Chapman is the one who figured out the spy network was being monitored on Saturday, prompting the FBI to make the arrests Monday. Photographs and videos of her have popped all over the Internet (See a wrap-up on The Washington Post).

Lazaro, 66, told people for decades that he was born in Uruguay and was a Peruvian citizen, but he is actually Russian and his real name is Mikhail Vasenkov. Lazaro admitted that he sent letters to the Russian intelligence service and that the Russian government paid for his house. He said that although he loved his son, he would not violate loyalty to the "Service," even for his child.

Neighbors said they knew Lazaro to be an economics professor at a college in New Jersey. An agent for Russia for years, Lazaro brought his wife, Vicky Pelaez, into the conspiracy by having her pass letters to the Russian intelligence service on his behalf.

Pelaez worked as a columnist for one of the United States' best-known Spanish-language newspapers, El Diario La Prensa. She had come to the U.S. after being briefly kidnapped by a leftist guerrilla group in Peru in 1984.

Pelaez, 55, lived under her real name and was an American citizen, but now plans to return to Peru after a brief stay in Russia, according to her attorney.

Both sons told reporters shortly after the arrests that they didn't believe the allegations.

"This looks like an Alfred Hitchcock movie with all this stuff from the 1960s. This is preposterous," Mariscal said. Of the charges, he said, "They're all inflated little pieces in the mosaic of unbelievable things."

Richard was an architect, a neighbor told The New Jersey Star-Ledger, and Cynthia had just gotten an MBA. Richard said he was from Philadelphia; Cynthia said she was from New York.

The couple lived with two young daughters, Katie, 11, and Lisa, 7, in a home on Marquette Road in Montclair that they purchased for $481,000 in the fall of 2008. The two had come to the U.S. in the mid-1990s, first living in an apartment in Hoboken, N.J.

Cynthia, 39, earned $135,000 a year as a vice president at a Manhattan firm, Morea Financial Services. Alan Patricof, a client of the firm and friend of the Clintons', told The Washington Post he believes he may have been targeted by the ring. Prosecutors said one of her assignments had been to network with Columbia University students. Her real name is Lydia Guryev.

Richard, 43, mostly stayed home with the children, neighbors said. His real name is Vladimir Guryev.

River House Apartments, where Zottoli and Mills lived in Arlington, Va.

The husband-and-wife pair lived in Seattle before they moved to Arlington, Va. in October 2009. Zottoli, 41, said he was born in Yonkers, N.Y., and Mills, 36, said she was a Canadian citizen. Records show the two moved around several times between 2002 and 2009. Zottoli was an accountant who constantly took personal calls at work, co-workers told the Seattle Times. Mills was a stay-at-home mom for the couple’s toddler, Kenny. There are reports they also have a 1-year-old.

“They were the nicest people,” said John Evans, the couple's former apartment manager. “In fact, I wish they had stayed on as tenants. They were really good tenants.”

When their Seattle apartment was searched in February 2006, FBI agents reportedly found password-protected computer disks that contained a “stenography program employed by the SVR.”

His real name is Mikhail Kutsik. Her real name is Natalia Pereverzeva.

The “Boston Conspirators,” as the FBI dubbed them, identified themselves as French-Canadian when they came to the U.S. in 1999.

Heathfield, 49, received a master’s from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in 2000 and worked as a consultant for a Cambridge-based consulting firm called Global Partners Inc — a job that allegedly enabled him to contact a former high-ranking U.S. government national security official. He also had his own consulting company, Future Map Strategic Advisory Services LLC. His real name is Andrey Bezrukov.

Foley, 47, was a real estate agent who showed houses in the Boston area. She worked on a contract basis for the real estate brokerage Redfin. Her real name is Elena Vavilova.

They spoke to their two sons, ages 20 and 16, in French when they appeared in court in Boston following the arrests.

Craig Sandler, a former classmate of Heathfield, told The Boston Globe the Russian spy was friendly and intelligent. Other classmates told The New York Times he had a taste for Scotch and described him as a “flavorful conversationalist” who was smart and funny.

“It never crossed my mind that he might be a spy,” Sandler said. “But it’s not completely flabbergasting. He seems like a guy who would make a pretty good spy.”

Mikhael Semenko, 28, was a travel specialist at Travel All Russia LLC’s in Arlington, Va. He joined the company in 2009 and was described as a friendly and diligent worker who spoke Spanish and Mandarin Chinese, in addition to Russian and English, according to a statement released by the company after his arrest. Semenko’s LinkedIn profile indicates he was particularly interested in non-profits, think tanks, public policy and educational institutions.

Semenko graduated from Seton Hall University with a degree in international relations in 2008, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Arrested at his home in Arlington, he was accused of using sophisticated communications equipment and making incriminating statements to an undercover agent posing as a Russian official. According to Britain’s Daily Telegraph, FBI officials met Semenko just blocks from the White House, at the intersection of 10th and H Street. “Could we have met in Beijing in 2004?” the undercover agent asked. “Yes, we might have but I believe it was in Harbin,” Semenko reportedly replied.

Officials said he arrived in the coastal town of Larnaca in Cyprus on June 17 and was arrested June 29 on an Interpol warrant while he was waiting to board a flight to Hungary. A Cyprus judge decided to release Metsos on $33,000 bail. Metsos failed to show up to a required meeting with Larnaca police following his release, initiating a manhunt for the final member of the group of Russian spies.

Officials fear Metsos could flee to northern Cyprus, which the AP described as a “diplomatic no-mans-land.”

Metsos, age 54 or 55, carries a Canadian passport and is what U.S. prosecutors called the “money man” of the group. He is accused of receiving and distributing money to the group and of conspiracy to commit money laundering. According to the U.S. Justice Department, he was given payments by a Russian official affiliated with Moscow's mission to the United Nations in a spy novel style "brush-pass" handoff and buried money in rural New York that was recovered two years later by another suspect.